{"id":15540,"date":"2019-06-10T11:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/06\/10\/news-9289\/"},"modified":"2019-06-10T11:00:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T19:00:36","slug":"news-9289","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/06\/10\/news-9289\/","title":{"rendered":"Try Before You Buy: Build your Data Center Design at World Wide Technology\u2019s Advanced Innovation Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Ron Catanzaro| Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 17:46:15 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>World Wide Technology\u2019s (WWT) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwt.com\/services\/atc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Advanced Innovation Center<\/a> (ATC) is like what testing tracks are to new car development. The ATC brings together a range of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider-electric.com\/en\/work\/solutions\/for-business\/data-centers-and-networks\/\">data center solutions<\/a> in one location as a proving ground. Live working data centers can be built and rebuilt quickly and easily to simulate business needs. WWT relies on customized racks, power and cooling from APC by Schneider Electric to create such flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can experiment in this innovative testing environment with data center configurations and capabilities \u2014 scaling up and down and safely failing on purpose. They can see how (and if) a particular <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/datacenter\/2016\/05\/16\/practical-guide-data-center-planning-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">data center design<\/a> would work for them before buying and deploying.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wKObrCdN6cM\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The first iteration of the ATC started in 2009 with six racks. A few years later, it expanded into other spaces on WWT\u2019s campus and grew to 150+ racks. Because of the tremendous growth and a lack of dedicated space, rack configurations as they were wouldn&#8217;t work. That\u2019s when WWT turned to us for a customized rack solution.<\/p>\n<p>Taller, wider, deeper 52U cabinets maximize the footprint and provide an additional 10U per rack space. Racks are built locally and come fully integrated, cutting back on build time and packaging. Through in-row cooling and hot-aisle containment, one rack can go from zero or low density when it&#8217;s not consuming any power to quickly consuming high density, 20 Kw of power.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57448\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.se.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/WWT_blog_embed_jpg_MHBKUkOV.jpg\" alt=\"WWT Facility where you can test your data center design\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.se.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/WWT_blog_embed_jpg_MHBKUkOV.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/blog.se.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/WWT_blog_embed_jpg_MHBKUkOV-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.se.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/WWT_blog_embed_jpg_MHBKUkOV-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.se.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/WWT_blog_embed_jpg_MHBKUkOV-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Of course, it takes more than customized racks to make a data center flexible and agile enough to go from low-density to high-density in 24 hours. WWT found that flexibility and predictability with cooling solutions from Schneider Electric.<\/p>\n<h2>Trying Before Buying Means Savings<\/h2>\n<p>Overall, the ATC is helping close the gap between what customers think they need and what their businesses really require. Building a real proof of concept allows for product benchmarking, design validation, functionality testing and upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>The result is that customers can preserve capex and adopt more of a pay-as-you-grow methodology. They can build an infrastructure for today and experiment for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57446\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.se.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/WWT_front_thumbnail_jpg_JFFQv9_A.jpg\" alt=\"WWT Facility where you can test your data center design\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.se.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/WWT_front_thumbnail_jpg_JFFQv9_A.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/blog.se.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/WWT_front_thumbnail_jpg_JFFQv9_A-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.se.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/WWT_front_thumbnail_jpg_JFFQv9_A-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.se.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/WWT_front_thumbnail_jpg_JFFQv9_A-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>We spoke with Bill Hoelzer, a WWT facilities technical architect and Mike Parham, technical solutions architect, WWT about the ATC. Get more details about the customized rack specs and find out the results from implementing in-row cooling and hot-aisle containment the by <a href=\"http:\/\/download.schneider-electric.com\/files?p_Doc_Ref=WWT_Case_Study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reading the full case study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.se.com\/datacenter\/2019\/06\/10\/try-before-you-buy-build-your-data-center-design-at-world-wide-technologys-advanced-innovation-center\/\">Try Before You Buy: Build your Data Center Design at World Wide Technology\u2019s Advanced Innovation Center<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.se.com\">Schneider Electric Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.se.com\/datacenter\/2019\/06\/10\/try-before-you-buy-build-your-data-center-design-at-world-wide-technologys-advanced-innovation-center\/\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Ron Catanzaro| Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 17:46:15 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>World Wide Technology\u2019s (WWT) Advanced Innovation Center (ATC) is like what testing tracks are to new car development. The ATC brings together a range of data center solutions in one&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.se.com\/datacenter\/2019\/06\/10\/try-before-you-buy-build-your-data-center-design-at-world-wide-technologys-advanced-innovation-center\/\" title=\"ReadTry Before You Buy: Build your Data Center Design at World Wide Technology\u2019s Advanced Innovation Center\">Read more &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.se.com\/datacenter\/2019\/06\/10\/try-before-you-buy-build-your-data-center-design-at-world-wide-technologys-advanced-innovation-center\/\">Try Before You Buy: Build your Data Center Design at World Wide Technology\u2019s Advanced Innovation Center<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.se.com\">Schneider Electric Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[12389,12388],"tags":[21997,12391,12478,12459,12500,21778],"class_list":["post-15540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scadaics","category-schneider","tag-advanced-technology-center","tag-data-center","tag-data-center-cooling","tag-data-center-design","tag-data-center-planning","tag-data-center-solutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}